Horrifying! Flogging of Gay Men in Indonesia Live Streamed on Facebook

The two gay men who were sentenced to lashing for engaging in gay sex by a Shariah Court in the Aceh Province of Indonesia, had their sentence carried out today. The two were flogged 85 times each at a public spot today. However, more horrifyingly, the whole episode was live streamed on Facebook.

Serambi TV, a media/news company in Indonesia, live streamed the whole flogging on its Facebook page. The Facebook page has over 110,000 likes/followers. The live stream showed a man wearing a white dress standing on a platform with his head bowed down, while another man in a black robe could be seen flogging him. A huge crowd too had gathered around the area to witness it.

The video of the flogging was still accessible on Facebook at the time of writing the report.

Update:This writer had reported the live stream for violent content using Facebook’s tools, and received a message from Facebook that the video does not violate its community standards and instead received a suggestion from Facebook to block or unfollow the Serambi TV page.